On EloquenceYale University Press, 2008 M10 1 - 208 páginas On Eloquence questions the common assumption that eloquence is merely a subset of rhetoric, a means toward a rhetorical end. Denis Donoghue, an eminent and prolific critic of the English language, holds that this assumption is erroneous. While rhetoric is the use of language to persuade people to do one thing rather than another, Donoghue maintains that eloquence is gratuitous, ideally autonomous, in speech and writing an upsurge of creative vitality for its own sake. He offers many instances of eloquence in words, and suggests the forms our appreciation of them should take. Donoghue argues persuasively that eloquence matters, that we should indeed care about it. Because we should care about any instances of freedom, independence, creative force, sprezzatura, he says, especially when we liveperhaps this is increasingly the casein a culture of the same, featuring official attitudes, stereotypes of the officially enforced values, sedated language, a politics of pacification. A noteworthy addition to Donoghues long-term project to reclaim a disinterested appreciation of literature as literature, this volume is a wise and pleasurable meditation on eloquence, its unique ability to move or give pleasure, and its intrinsic value. |
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... Context accounts for much in these instances from Arnold, Wordsworth, and the other writers, but when elo- quence arises, we recognize it as a discovery within the medium itself, free of every rhetorical motive, an expressive act come ...
... Context accounts for much in these instances from Arnold, Wordsworth, and the other writers, but when elo- quence arises, we recognize it as a discovery within the medium itself, free of every rhetorical motive, an expressive act come ...
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... context the other poems and the prose of the Vita Nuova, but it lives on the uncanny eloquence of its last word: un spirito soave pien d'amore, che va dicendo a l'anima: Sospira. (and from her face there seems to move a gentle spirit ...
... context the other poems and the prose of the Vita Nuova, but it lives on the uncanny eloquence of its last word: un spirito soave pien d'amore, che va dicendo a l'anima: Sospira. (and from her face there seems to move a gentle spirit ...
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... context for it. How the ideas got into the book, and what happened when they entered, did not trouble him. He advised us to consult E. M. W. Tillyard's The Elizabethan World Picture, A. C. Bradley's Shakespearean Tragedy, and Basil Wil ...
... context for it. How the ideas got into the book, and what happened when they entered, did not trouble him. He advised us to consult E. M. W. Tillyard's The Elizabethan World Picture, A. C. Bradley's Shakespearean Tragedy, and Basil Wil ...
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... context of allusion . I also read some sentences from Johnson's Life of Browne , those in which Johnson , a critic who rarely felt the need of second thoughts , qualified his disapproval of Browne's style by adverting to the merits that ...
... context of allusion . I also read some sentences from Johnson's Life of Browne , those in which Johnson , a critic who rarely felt the need of second thoughts , qualified his disapproval of Browne's style by adverting to the merits that ...
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